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Integrated Business Establishment Survey 2014, Phase II

Ghana, 2015 - 2016
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Ghanaian Statistical Service
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  • Identification
  • Version
  • Scope
  • Coverage
  • Producers and sponsors
  • Sampling
  • Survey instrument
  • Data collection
  • Data processing
  • Data appraisal
  • access_policy
  • Contacts
  • Metadata production

    • Identification

    Survey ID number
    gha-gss-ibes-2014-p2-v1
    Title
    Integrated Business Establishment Survey 2014
    Subtitle
    Phase II
    Country
    Name Country code
    Ghana GHA
    Study type
    Enterprise/Establishment Survey [en]
    Series Information
    Ghana Statistical Service and DataFirst. Integrated Business Establishment Survey 2014, Phase II [dataset]. Version 1. Ghana: Ghana Statistical Service and DataFirst [producers], 2021. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor],2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.25828/7er4-cz67
    Abstract
    The Integrated Business Establishment Survey was an establishment census conducted by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) in 2014. IBES 2014 phase 1 collected data on 638 000 establishments in Ghana across all sectors.
    Phase 2 was a roughly 5% stratified sample of the phase 1 firms undertaken in 2015 (GSS, 2017). Phase 2 contained many more questions to the firms sampled, for example their costs, revenues and assets.
    GSS allowed DataFirst to release a 40% sample of the phase 2 data, through a project funded by the Project for Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries (PEDL). Thus the observations we have represent aronud 2% of the total census.
    Kind of Data
    Census/enumeration data
    Unit of Analysis
    Establishments

    Version

    Version Description
    v1: Edited, anonymised dataset for public distribution.
    Version Date
    2021

    Scope

    Notes

    The data is about firms; their actitivies, organisational structure, employees and persons engaged, costs (wages and other), assets and stocks, revenues, research and development, and human capital.

    Coverage

    Geographic Coverage
    The survey was designed to be representative at the regional level.
    Geographic Unit
    The lowest geographic unit available in the data is the district (which is one level below the region).
    Universe
    All non-household establishments with a fixed site and any household-based business with a sign indicating its presence within a household.

    Producers and sponsors

    Primary investigators
    Name Affiliation
    Ghanaian Statistical Service The Government of Ghana
    Funding Agency/Sponsor
    Name Role
    Ghana Statistical Development Project Funder
    United Kingdom Government Funder
    Netherlands Government Funder
    World Bank Funding Manager
    Project for Enterprise Development in Low Income Countries Funder

    Sampling

    Sampling Procedure
    IBES 2014 consisted of two phases. Phase 1 was a census of non-household establishments with a fixed site and any household-based business with a sign indicating its presence within a household.
    Phase 2 was a stratified roughly 5% sample of the phase I firms.
    Response Rate
    78% of the firms selected for re-interview in phase II were successfully interviewed.
    Weighting
    Design weights were provided by GSS with the phase II data. Non-response adjusted weights have been created by DataFirst.
    The final weights in the data account for the fact that GSS only allowed a 40% sample of phase 2 to be released publicly.

    Survey instrument

    Questionnaires
    For Phase II there were nine different questionnaires (or "forms") used, depending on the sector that the firms main business activity was in. Manufacturing was split further, with small firms (<30 persons engaged) getting form 3A and larger firms getting 3B.

    Data collection

    Dates of Data Collection
    Start End
    2015 2016
    Data Collection Mode
    • Face-to-face [f2f]
    Data Collectors
    Name Affiliation
    Ghana Statistical Service Government of Ghana

    Data processing

    Data Editing
    The data are released with a detailed description of the how the final dataset was prepared - please see the documentation.

    Data appraisal

    Data Appraisal
    The data are released with a detailed description of the how the final dataset was prepared and the data quality issues - please see the documentation.

    access_policy

    Access authority
    Name Affiliation URL Email
    DataFirst University of Cape Town support@data1st.org
    Access conditions
    Public use files, available to all
    Citation requirements
    Ghana Statistical Service and DataFirst. Integrated Business Establishment Survey 2014, Phase II [dataset]. Version 1. Ghana: Ghana Statistical Service and DataFirst [producers], 2021. Cape Town: DataFirst [distributor],2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.25828/7er4-cz67

    Contacts

    Contacts
    Name Affiliation Email URL
    DataFirst Support University of Cape Town support@data1st.org

    Metadata production

    Producers
    Name Affiliation Role
    DataFirst University of Cape Town Metadata producer
    Date of Metadata Production
    2021-02-25

    Metadata version

    DDI Document version
    Version 1
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